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This bill establishes a new criminal offense of reckless driving resulting in death as an aggravated felony in West Virginia. Currently, reckless driving is a misdemeanor, but the bill creates a new subsection (f) that makes it a felony if a person's reckless driving proximately causes another person's death. Under this new provision, a person convicted of such an offense would face imprisonment in a state correctional facility for a period of one to ten years, a fine between $5,000 and $10,000, or both. The bill also makes some minor technical changes to the existing reckless driving statute, such as adjusting language about confinement and fines, and clarifying that the law applies to driving with "willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property" in various locations like highways, parking areas, educational institutions, state parks, and other public spaces. The bill builds upon existing provisions that already address reckless driving causing serious bodily injury, now extending the legal consequences to cases where reckless driving results in a fatality.

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